Visitor's Photographs of The Villa Vesuviana

Myron Byron's photostream at Flickr.

Myron Byron has a photo he took at Flickr from the docks at the Villa Vesuviana.

What a wonderful photographer!

It's so exciting seeing people visit the villa and take photos. If you've got any photos you've taken of The Villa, please send me the Flickr link! My e-mail is culturecannibal@gmail.com.

Here's the slurl to The Villa, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Westphalia/69/207/26

Wanted: Not-so-Prolific Writers!

If you've ever tried to write a blog, you know that you've got to write-write-write at least several times a week, if not several times a day. As you can see from my own blog, it's not that easy to do.

So if you're a not-so-prolific writer like myself and you've wanted to see your words in print on a blog but only have the time to write a blog post every two or three weeks, then send me a message. I'd love to hear what you have to say and maybe we can make sure everyone else is able to see your words on an irregular meeping basis.

My e-mail is culturecannibal@gmail.com

Lillian Shippe is this week's $L300 Blog Follower Winner!

Congratulations to Lillian Shippe who is the Blog Follower prize winner of $L300.

Isn't Lillian beautiful?

[20:39] CultureCannibal Zilz: Meep! I've restarted my weekly Linden give away and you won this week! Thanks for following my blog![20:39] Lillian Shippe: lol....Thanks!

[20:39] Lillian Shippe grins!

[20:39] Lillian Shippe: WOW!

[20:40] CultureCannibal Zilz: Do you have any plans yet on how you might spend the $Lindens?

[20:41] Lillian Shippe: I'm standing in &bean looking at Keiko's skins...and now thinking I might go back to Trilogy and treat myself to another one of her fabulous vintage themed 1940's skins.

[20:42] CultureCannibal Zilz: Sounds wonderful honey! Send me a pic if you get one and I'll put it on the blog!

[20:42] Lillian Shippe: Thank you CCZ!

[20:42] CultureCannibal Zilz: You're welcome!

Please add your Big Meeping Congratulations for Lillian in the comments!!!

Our Custom Build is in the Second Life Destination Guide

I'm sending out Huge Meeping Kudos to our custom builder CapabilityTodd Elswit! Second Life has honoured him by including one of his historical builds in the Second Life Destination Guide.

Stop by to visit his virtual interpretation of the RL Villa Capra "La Rotonda". And while you're visiting, if you join The Friends of The Villa subscribe-o-matic group, you'll automatically receive a free copy of Blue Revolution's Second Life book on the RL La Rotonda. And remember, subscribe-o-matic groups are web-based and don't use an SL group!

And after visiting The Villa, please return here and add your thoughts on your experience. Cap would love to hear from you.

Villa Capra (La Rotonda) is a virtual interpretation of the World Heritage site in Vicenza, Italy. Built in 1565, this elegant country house was inspired by the Pantheon in Rome and has since influenced the design of thousands of subsequent structures.

Oooops! I'm an hour late on the L$300 Give Away

Meep!!!!

Today is a busy day so I moved the live drawing for the weekly L$300 giveaway to 9AM.  And I completely though it was supposed to be at 10AM.  My apologies to anyone who tried to come watch since I wasn't there.  

I've added the new people following since last week and we have a list of 13 eligible people!  Some of you might notice that there are 14 people following the blog so 

far...well one of those 

fourteen is me and I've obviously excluded myself as being eligible for the give-away.

And the winner of this week's L$300 is....

Zuzu Muircastle! 

[10:01]  CultureCannibal Zilz: You won my weekly drawing for L$300!  Thank you so much for following my blog. 

[10:03]  ZuZu Muircastle: wow

[10:03]  CultureCannibal Zilz: Any plans on how you are going to spend the Linden$?

[10:04]  ZuZu Muircastle: I love neko and collect tails, so you can bet it will go towards a new tail :)

[10:04]  CultureCannibal Zilz: Yay!!!!

[10:04]  ZuZu Muircastle: thank you

[10:05]  CultureCannibal Zilz: You're welcome. And thanks for following my blog.  It's been a bit sparse this week, but I will start up again this weekend.

Everyone stay tuned for next weeks giveaway and remember you can't win unless you enter by publicly following the blog!  Look at the top of the right hand colum to enter.

And the winner of the first L$300 Weekly GiveAway is!!!!

Ok, before I announce the winner, let me say this is how I do the live drawings. I put everyone whose a public follower of my blog into a list using Linden Scripting Language (LSL).  I then run the randomize list function on this list to mix up the order of everyone's name.  The next step in the script is to say the list in general chat in the new order.  The first person on the newly ordered list is the winner.  If someone actually showed up to watch the live drawing, I'd let them choose whether they want the first or last position in the list to be the winner.

Here's the script from this week's live drawing:

list dice = ["CJ Escher", "Zak Escher", "Orinoco Beresford", "Floradora Sol", "Barbie Hastings", "Taylor Thompson", "Lutricia Roux", "Jaxx Osterham", "RatzTale"];

default

{

    touch_start(integer num_detected) {

        list shuffled = llListRandomize(dice, 1);

        llSay(0, llDumpList2String(shuffled, ",\n"));

        // llOwnerSay(llList2CSV(shuffled));

    }

}

Drum roll please!

And the first person on the reordered list this time was Jaxx Osterham!  

Congratulations, Jaxx. Spend your L$300 wisely!

Jaxx's not quite sure what she's going to spend the money on.  Perhaps you can IM her with some suggestions.

To be automatically entered in the drawing on Friday for another L$300, just start following this blog by clicking on the "Follow this blog" link in the upper right hand column above my photo. 

Good luck next week!

On the Fifth Day of Christmas Decorating Leticia Segall sent me some help

Thank Meep for the Freebie Telegraph and Leticia Segall!  When I sent out my urgent request for further Christmas deocrating ideas to the Freebie Telegraph, Leticia Segall was one of the people who threw me some Christmas Cheer.  Leticia has a whole notecard of Xstreet SL free gifts for the holidays that she said I could share with you.  Be sure to send her an IM of thanks!

I've already reviewed some of the items on Leticia's notecard in some of the previous posts on The Twelve Days of Christmas Decorating series.  For the rest of the items on Leticia's list I'll post some of the Xstreet images and a link so you can find them easily.  Happy Holiday Decorating!

The first item is a set of three Animated Winter Paintings by Luthien Unsung.  Not only has she provided this wonderful freebie on Xstreet, but if you click on her name and look at her picks you can see that she's also got a 

Money Tree for new avatars!  Purrrrrr!   Here's the link to her animated winter scene paintings on 

Xstreet SL, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=528934

Double Meep!  This box of Christmas decorations created by Alzahra Ames is a lovely find be Leticia.  If you're a business owner, not only can you use it to decorate your store, but Alzahra has also given permission to resell the decorations!  I especially like the candles set in the poinsettia.  You can find this on Xstreet SL at, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=983535

You can get a cute snowman texture to set or hang on the wall from DarkDharma Daguerre which you can find on Xstreet SL at, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1040. 

Here's a nice elf stocking freebie texture that Leticia found on Xstreet SL.  This freebie is provided by Melly Huldschinsky from Striker & Mellys Designz for personalized cards, decorations, gifts and garden.  You can find the elf stocking on Xstreet at the following link, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1018027

Meep! How time flies while you're decorating for Christmas.  There's still a long list of items from Leticia and I'll have to cover them the next day. In the meantime, if any of you have great suggestions for Christmas items, be they freebies or for sale, please use the comments to suggest them.

Live a luxurious holiday inSL

~CultureCannibal Zilz